Is A-Rod reaching 600 home runs a big deal?

New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez hit the 599th home run of his career Thursday in a 10-4 win over the Kansas City Royals. Mr. Rodriguez is now poised to reach the 600 home-run milestone, a feat that only six other major league ballplayers have achieved.

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He hit a good number of those home runs on steroids and who knows how many he has accounted for since he allegedly got off the stuff. He’ll nevertheless get in the Hall of Fame on these tainted credentials while Pete Rose, who holds an even more impressive resume, won’t, even though he played the game without bulking himself up. Put a disclaimer next to his name in the record book and do the same for Bonds, McGwire, Sosa et al. On the other hand, maybe Minaya and Manuel ought to be doling something out — such as performance enhancing drugs — to the anemic hitters on the Mets. They are difficult to watch these days.

Bottom line regarding A-Rod: it’s only a milestone in his career and shouldn’t really matter to anyone but him and his followers.

Pete will always be one of the best in my opinion but right now A Rod is out there every day proving that he has power to hit homeruns without the use of performance enhancing steroids. He’s playing great, is fun to watch and has moved on as should his detractors.

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